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to me , if they dont paper "up" I dont even bother comp testing ; if i kept every foal who tested aga to parent , i would be drowning in foals ( I breed about 4500 a season ). I am not saying its "bad" or "good" am just saying its a way to keep my numbers down a bit. 2GMust paper up from parent ; 5g must be gold or star. I am not sure I would be able to get to 5g gold if i started with a 2g yellow.

Also, a yellow foal from a yellow dam, who tests AGA could still be 1-2% worse than the dam. AGA could be both slightly better and slightly worse.

As Maribo says, I think "about as good as" means the two horses you are comparing have similar breeding ability within a certain range. So the foals are both very close to their mothers, but they could still be slightly better or worse and comp testing will say AGA. In the case of the red filly that is AGA her yellow mother, this filly obviously has better breeding ability (Red > Yellow) but isn't so far above her mother for the test to say "superior."